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28 The expectation of the righteous is gladness
And the hope of the godless comes to nothing.
תּוֹחֶלֶת as well as תִּקְוָה proceed on the fundamental idea of a strained earnest looking back upon something, the same fundamental idea which in another view gives the meaning of strength (חַיִל, Arab. ḥayl; ḳuwwat, kawiyy, cf. גָּדַל, Arab. jdl, plectere, and גָּדוֹל, strong and strength). The substantival clause 28a denotes nothing more than: it is gladness (cf. Pro 3:17, all their steps are gladness), but which is equivalent to, it is that in its issue, in gaudium desinit. Hitzig's remark that תוחלת is the chief idea for hope and fear, is not confirmed by the usage of the language; it always signifies joyful, not anxious, expectation; cf. the interchange of the same two synonyms Pro 13:7, and תַּאֲוַת, Psa 112:10, instead of תִּקְוַת (here and Job 8:13). While the expectation of the one terminates in the joy of the fulfilment, the hope of the other (אבד, R. בד, to separate) perishes, i.e., comes to nothing.